$400,000 top price as buyers gravitate to middle and high-end of two-year-old market A domestic buying bench featuring some new and arguably unexpected names prepared to invest heavily at the top-end of the market helped underpin yesterday’s record-breaking Inglis Ready2Race Sale in Sydney, another example of the thirst for Australian bloodstock. The honour of the... Read More

Zaaki (Leroidesanimaux) may not have been afforded the chance to add to his Group 1 haul in Saturday’s Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m), however, for his breeder Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud and the Tattersalls Horses in Training sale itself, he remains the flagbearer of both operations as potent sources of elite-level winners in Australia.  An... Read More

Tony Gollan-trained six-year-old flies home at The Valley to break through at the top-level Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo) enjoyed his greatest moment since joining the stallion ranks when Jonker – who is from the sire’s first crop – became the stallion’s first Group 1 winner courtesy of his victory in the Manikato Stakes (Gr 1,... Read More

Decision yet to be made on immediate future of champion More Joyous’ daughter Rosemont Stud will weigh up whether to continue the racing career of Joyous Legend (Snitzel), a stakes-placed daughter of champion eight-time Group 1-winning mare More Joyous (More Than Ready), after adding her to the Victorian farm’s ever expanding high-end thoroughbred portfolio for... Read More

Tralee Rose books Melbourne Cup start as Melody Belle’s half-brother Tutukaka displays his Derby credentials The loss of stallion Tavistock (Montjeu) as a source of talented middle-distance horses was once again accentuated at Geelong yesterday with the late Cambridge Stud sire producing a legitimate Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) contender in the form of Tralee... Read More